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What is Matcha? It’s a special green tea powder and the healthiest green tea on earth. Why? Usually you steep green tea only to drink the water and throw away the leaves that carry the most nutrients. When drinking Matcha powder you drink the water AND the powdered green tea leaves.
Eggnog is a delicious and sweet drink which can be combined with other beverages to make it truly delicious and unforgettable. Combined with exotic Matcha, Eggnog Matcha can easily become a favorite especially at many social occasions where people want to appear trendy and adventurous at the same time. This interesting and sweetish vanilla-like drink is perfectly blended to suit many audiences both young and old and because of its lingering taste, can be very sumptuous on the palate. It can be taken both night or day depending on the audience and occasion.
Eggnog Matcha has the taste of vanilla or even custard. This taste is refined by the balancing effect of Matcha to make a mellow treat that is very pleasurable for the palate. Its thick creamy feel in the mouth makes it an easy favorite for those wanting to treat their palates to pure leisure and unforgettable pleasure. It can be an excellent companion to many snack alternatives because of its sweet base and sumptuous feel on the palate. Eggnog Matcha is a heavenly snack for those occasions where guests deserve to relax and enjoy a full bodied sensation on their palates.
Ingredients: Pure Matcha powder from green leaves, Eggnog Natural Flavor
Compare Matcha caffeine with other beverages:
DRINK
Fluid ounces
Caffeine (mg)
mg/floz
5150 Juice
32
16,000
500
5 Hour Energy
2
138
69
Red Bull
8.4
80
9.5
Coffee
12
108
9.1
Matcha Tea
8
70
8.8
Green Tea
8
25
3.1
White Tea
8
15
1.9
OUR REVIEW
When you open the package the smell is amazing - absolutely amazing! I love that Matcha tea has health benefits and is low calorie. According to the package it has only 4 calories and 0g fat. The best part - NO food coloring, NO MSG, NO artificial sweeteners and NO preservatives. Awesome! I made my Eggnog Matcha two different ways, according to the directions given.
I made the Hot Latte first, which is mixing the Eggnog Matcha with 6 - 8 oz of milk, with an option of adding a dollop of frothed milk on top.
It was ok, not something I would drink everyday. I added a little extra flavoring as the 1/2 teaspoon of Matcha wasn't strong enough for me. If you like warm milk you will really like this latte. If warm milk is not your thing that I recommend making a cold latte.
The cold Eggnog Matcha latte was yummy. You make it with cold milk, adding your Matcha, add ice and blend it up or shake up. I did use the blender.
It was rich and refreshing. Again, not something I would drink everyday, but definitely will be drinking this quite a bit in the summer! The cold latte Eggnog Matcha drink would be a fun treat to serve guests. I used regular whole milk, but I can't see why you couldn't use any type of milk (almond, soy, coconut) you want.
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How familiar are you with the Magic Bullet? It has been on the market for quite a few years now and still sales are going strong. In today's day and age we all want additional options to eat in a more healthy way. The Magic Bullet totally fits that bill.
There are so many stories out there about products that we should not be putting into our bodies. The only way to be totally sure we are managing our diets is to manage it ourselves and rely less on prepackaged foods or premade, store bought items.
Would you like to win the full Magic Bullet Blender Set Giveaway? Enter the Giveaway Tool below. There are some entries that are daily so you can increase your chances of winning!
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Here is a recipe from the Magic Bullet Blog: Bananas for Raspberry Smoothie
Ingredients:
1 banana
1 cup frozen raspberries
1/2 cup orange juice
1/4 cup plain non-fat yogurt
Instructions:
Add ingredients to your Magic Bullet cup and blend well. Makes 2 cups. Enjoy!
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The BEST deal is the M+BL Cookbook Bundle. It is normally 30% off the individual book prices, and it is an additional 50% off for this Thanksgiving sale FOR A TOTAL OF 80% OFF!!! You can get all 4 of my cookbooks for $12.5o!! Till December 3rd only!
Alright my loves, this is a HUGE sale. I have never before slashed prices like this and I really hope you take advantage of it. I so want you to be a happy and healthy mama and all the products in the M+BL store will help you on your journey. Lots of love to you! Happy Thanksgiving!!!
This is a great post about carrots written by Daisy Luther . Her website, The Organic Prepper, offers information on healthy prepping, including premium nutritional choices, general wellness and non-tech solutions.
Also, check out THIS WEBSITE for a Parents Guide - List of Vegetables by Season! It is full of other useful information as well.
Happy Reading about... Carrots!
The leaves are beginning to turn, the air is crisp, and the current harvest is root vegetables. This week the focus is on carrots, crisp and sweet, straight from the rich earth.
Carrot trivia: In ancient times, carrots were actually used for their seeds and foliage as opposed to their taproots. The modern carrot that we enjoy originated over one thousand years ago in Afghanistan. Carrots were mentioned medicinally in ancient Greek and Latin writings. They are typically orange, but there are also heirloom varieties that are purple, red, white, and yellow. Carrots were first documented to be cultivated in North America in 1607. China and Russia produce 2/3 of the world’s carrot supply. Americans only consume an average of 1 cup of carrots per week.
Nutritional benefits
Carrots are bursting with nutrients.
A one cup serving of carrots contains about 52 calories, no fat, 12 grams of carbohydrates, and 4 grams of fiber.
A serving of carrots contains 4 times the minimum RDA of Vitamin A.
Carrots also contain substantial amounts of B6, thiamine, vitamin C, vitamin K, and vitamin E.
Carrots contain the minerals sulphur, phosphorus, copper, folic acid, and magnesium.
Carrots have healing, diuretic, and sedative properties.
The brighter orange a carrot is, the greater the amount of valuable beta-carotene it contains. Beta carotene is a vital antioxidant phytonutrient.
Carrots are beneficial to eye health and can help to prevent glaucoma and cataracts.
Carrots aid in the prevention of colon cancer.
Using fresh carrots
If carrots are organic, peeling is entirely optional – just scrub them well with a brush. If you choose to peel your carrots, store them in a dish of water in the fridge. Carrots should be stored away from ethylene-producing items like potatoes, apples, and pears, as they will cause faster spoilage.
Carrots are excellent raw, cooked, shredded, in a salad, roasted, or pureed into a soup.
A favorite side dish in our household is carrot “fries” which I often serve in place of french fries.
Carrot Fries
Ingredients
4 cups of carrots, sliced into coins or sticks
3 tbsp of olive oil
1 tsp of garlic powder
1 tsp of onion powder
1 tsp of seasoning salt (no msg)
1/2 tsp of cayenne pepper (optional)
Directions
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit.
In a large bowl, mix seasonings into olive oil.
Stir in carrot slices and toss until they are well coated.
Spread the carrots on a cookie sheet in a single layer.
Bake for 20 minutes, then flip the carrots to get them evenly browned.
Return to the oven for another 10-15 minutes until the carrots are crisp and lightly golden.
Serve with yogurt ranch dip or barbecue sauce.
Preserving carrots
Freezing: Freezing results in the next best thing to fresh carrots. Peel them if you opt to do so, then blanch the carrots in boiling water for 2-5 minutes, depending on the size you have cut the carrots into. Immediately dunk them into an ice bath for 5 minutes, then freeze them on a cookie sheet. Once they are completely frozen, store them in well-sealed Ziplock bags. Frozen carrots can be roasted, steamed, or boiled.
Dehydrating: To dehydrate carrots, shred them with a coarse grater. Spread them in a thin layer on the tray of your dehydrator and process overnight. Store in an airtight jar in a cool, dark place. Dehydrated carrots can be added to baked goods, soups, stews, and casseroles.
Canning: Canning is not my favorite method of preserving carrots because of the “mushy” texture that results from the pressure canning process. Leaving them in bigger chunks (or even whole) will result in a firmer canned carrot.
Honeyed Carrots
Ingredients
10 pounds of carrots
Raw honey
Lemon juice
Sea salt
Directions
Clean and cut the carrots into your desired size.
Stuff the sanitized jars full of carrots, making sure you leave a half an inch of headspace at the top of the jar. Add 1/2 tsp of honey, 1 tsp of lemon juice, and a dash of salt (if desired) to each pint jar.
Fill the jars with hot water, allowing 1/2 inch of headspace.
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I love gardening! I'm getting our little 'Happy Green Babies' into gardening. It's fun (and hard work) with great payout when your crops come in and you are cooking with your own fabulous healthy fruits and veggies! Check out this book on Jalapenos! Have some great tips for container gardening.
This comprehensive e-book contains over 40 pages jam packed with information specific to growing hot peppers. This document is broken up into three sections: Raising Hot Peppers, Chile Plant Hospital and The Hot Pepper Report.
Chapters describe how to:
• Water, fertilize and provide a healthy environment for chile seedlings as they grow,
• Prune pepper plants and achieve the best harvest before the end of the growing season,
• Winterize (over winter) plants so they survive the cold season and last for more than one year,
• Diagnose common pepper plant problems and understand how to treat them,
• Find out about the characteristics, such as the hotness and flavor, of Jalapeno and super hot pepper varieties
Instructions focus on container gardening so that anyone with any amount of space can grow chillies. Book contains detailed, color illustrations to help readers through each step.
A must-have guide for chile enthusiasts, organic gardeners and container growers!
Have you heard of Mama & Baby Love? Mama & Baby Love is an awesome blog on living healthy, helping mothers in personal health and enjoying life. But not only that, Stephanie at Mama & Baby Love was the leader on slow cooker freezer meals. She has an fantastic cookbook out, and another one on the way.
Stephanie over at Mama & Baby Love is offering a great deal on her first cookbook as she gets ready for the next one to hit the shelves. If you love freezer meals, or have been wanting to try them, NOW IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY!
Below is more about Stephanie and her cookbook! You are going to LOVE it!
THIS COOKBOOK IS HALF OFF TILL AUGUST 14th!! In honor of the next slow cooker freezer recipe cookbook that comes out August 8th!!
This summer has been a whirlwind after I launched the first edition of my eCookbook at the end of April. Everyday I am so touched to see how many people love my eCookbook, my recipes and the idea in general. Never in a million years did I think a little idea I came up with to try and make my life easier would have turned into such a Big Idea.
**This eCookbook is in PDF format. You can view it on your computer, your smart phone or a tablet, if you can view PDF’s (almost all devices can do this but you may need a free Adobe PDF app downloaded first).**
I am so proud of the eCookbook. Not only does it have a ton of great recipes that you can assemble in a couple of hours and fill your freezer, it is a complete beginner’s guide to Real Food.
My recipes are 95% grain-free, gluten-free and dairy-free.
You can buy it here for only $9.99! Now $4.99 till August 14th!
This eCookbook has 15 new recipes in it (35 recipes total).
So hopefully these recipes make you healthier, feel better and lose weight. Also important, hopefully you enjoy the amount of time it will save you in your life!
Loaded with a great tomato flavor. Dei Fratelli soup has a wonderful, zesty flavor. It is one of the very few condensed tomato soups that is 100% gluten free!Check out Mommy Lesson Plans review on Dei Fratelli!
Sun Rype has two new SunRype Fruit Strip flavors - Raspberry and Strawberry Watermelon, and one new FruitSource bar 'superfruits' flavor - Mango Mangosteen. The Fruit Strips are 100% fruit with no artificial colors, flavors, or preservatives. The Fruit Bars are a thicker version of the fruit strips, and they have 2 servings of fruit in each bar! These are debuting in stores this month!I got to try them before they were even in the stores, and let me tell you, they taste amazing. I actually had to ration my children to one a day because they probably would have eaten them all at once. Also, I wanted to eat some myself.They have a Buy One Get One FREE Coupon for their Facebook Fans that will be available until the end of May or up to 10,000 prints (which ever comes first). I highly recommend heading on over there to get one.
Sun Rype launched their company in 1946, when they were known as BC Fruit Growers and their juice was titled Sun Rype. Their first juice was created from 100% apples directly from the orchard. Having been in the fruit business for so much time, they really must know their stuff. They have enlarged their product line considerably since then.
We have a cute retro lunch kit that we could also throw into that prize package. Also in the next couple of months they will be bringing to the USA market some SunRype Smoothies with flavors like Tropical Sunrise and Berry Delicious. I can’t wait to try them!
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The company provides a better alternative to candy. All of their candy is made from healthy ingredients. They are made from real fruit extracts rather than of high fructose corn syrup and artificial dyes. They are also gluten and peanut free. YumEarth Naturals Sour Beans are dairy-free, fat-free, and soy-free. The Sour Beans come in a pouch with ten little snack packs. Each snack pack has 100% of daily vitamin C. I am so delighted to be providing my kids candy that actually helps keep them healthy. I also like that each snack pack is less than 70 calories,which is perfect for those late night candy cravings.
More information and a store list is available at http://www.yummyearth.com You can also find them on Facebook and Twitter @YumEarth.
To learn more, read the reviews by Mommy Lesson Plans and Must Love Freebies.
My family loves snack but snacks oftentimes have a lot of preservative and ingreditents that were grown with pesticides and other harmful chemicals. I was happy to find Newman's Own Organics because they make their products with all organic ingredients. Read the FULL REVIEW.
Jenn,
Mom Of Two Munchkins was provided with a free sample of this product
to review, and was under no obligation to review it. Nor was Jenn, Mom Of Two Munchkins under any obligation to write a
positive review or sponsor a product giveaway in return for the free
product. Jenn, Mom Of Two Munchkinsand Happy Green Baby, LLC. are not responsible for shipping of prize. Newman's Own Organics has the sole responsibility for shipping of
prize. Prize value is approximately $10.
The Epica Wolf Claw Meat Handler is a fantastic kitchen tool that I am not sure how I ever lived without! It lift, shreds, tosses, mixes, and serves! I always fought with making pulled pork. It was a pain to lift the pork out of the crock pot and it it was a bigger pain to shred the meat. The Epica Wolf Claw Meat Handler made it super easy to lift the meat and then shredding was a breeze. My hands were kept away from the hot roast and I ended up with beautiful, shredded pork! Delicious. I can't wait to use it more. Read my full review here.
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to review, and was under no obligation to review it. Nor was Jenn, Mom Of Two Munchkins under any obligation to write a positive review
or sponsor a product giveaway in return for the free product. Happy Green Baby, LLC. are not responsible for shipping of prize. Prize value is $19.95.
The Almondina Giveaway Hosted by Mommy Lesson Plans
Almondina cookies are delicious crispy cookies chock full of almonds. I almost hate to tell you that they are healthy, because then some of you may not want to try them. They are cholesterol free and have no coloring or preservatives. They have no added fat, the almonds are the only thing that has fat. They have no added salt. They are only 30 calories a slice, and are kosher and dairy-free.
Find out more through Mommy Lesson Plans Almondina review.
You can find Almondina on their website, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
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Sun Rype makes incredibly healthy and delicious snacks. Their treats come in several different types; bars, strips, twists and mini bites. They are made with 100% fruit and have no artificial flavors, colors, and preservatives. Some of them have two servings of fruit in them. They are delicious and sure to be a hit with the kids.
More information and a store list is available at 
Sun Rype makes incredibly healthy and delicious snacks. Their treats come in several different types; bars, strips, twists and mini bites. They are made with 100% fruit and have no artificial flavors, colors, and preservatives. Some of them have two servings of fruit in them. They are delicious and sure to be a hit with the kids.
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